Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman to lie in state as suspect faces court date

Minneapolis – The former lecturer of the Minnesota Chamber, Melissa Hortman, will be in the state in the rotunda of Minnesota Capitol on Friday while the man accused of killing her as well as her husband, and of injuring a state senator and his wife must be judicial.

Hortman, a democrat, will be the first woman and one of the under 20 minnesotans granted to the honor. She will remain in a state with her husband, Mark, and their Golden Retriever, Gilbert. Her husband was also killed in the June 14 attack, and Gilbert was seriously injured and had to be euthanized.

The public can pay tribute from noon to 5 p.m. Friday. House television will be in difficulty visualization. A private burial is set at 10:30 am on Saturday. The service will be broadcast live on the youtube channel of the Ministry of Public Security.

Former vice-president Kamala Harris will fly to Minnesota for funerals but will have no role of speech, according to his personal office. Harris expressed his condolences last week to Hortman adult children and spoke with Governor Tim Walz, his running mate in 2024, who extended an invitation on behalf of the Hortman family, said his office.

The man accused of having killed the Hortmans and injury another Democratic legislator and his wife owes to court on Friday to face what the main federal prosecutor of Minnesota called “a political assassination”. Vance Boelter, 57, from Green Isle, went to his home on the night of June 15 after the authorities called the largest research in the history of Minnesota.

The hearing, before judge magistrate Douglas Micko, should determine if Boelter should remain in detention without surety and affirm that there are probable reasons to proceed. We do not expect him to plead a plea. Prosecutors must obtain an indictment of the Grand Jury before being charged later, that is to say when a plea is normally seized.

According to the federal complaint, the police video shows Boelter outside the Hortmans homes and captures the sound of gunshots. And he says that the security video shows that Boelter approaches the entry doors for two other houses of legislators disguised as a police officer.

His lawyers refused to comment on the charges, which could bear the federal death. The acting American lawyer for Minnesota, Joseph Thompson, said last week that no decision had been made. Minnesota abolished his death penalty in 1911. The death penalty information center indicates that a federal case on the death penalty was not prosecuted in Minnesota in the modern era, as best as she can see it.

Boelter also faces a separate murder and attempted accusations of murder before the State Tribunal who could bring life without parole, assuming that the County prosecutors obtain their own accusation for murder in the first degree. But the federal authorities intend to use their power to try Boelter first.

The authorities say that Boelter pulled and injured the senator from the Democratic State John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, at their home in Champlin before shooting and killing the Hortmans in their house in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis in Brooklyn Park, a few kilometers away.

Federal prosecutors allege that Boelter also stopped at the home of two other Democratic legislators. Prosecutors also say that he has listed dozens of other democrats as potential targets, including officials from other states. Friends have described Boelter as an evangelical Christian with politically conservative opinions. But the prosecutors have so far refused to speculate on a reason.

Boelter’s wife Jenny published a statement Thursday through her own lawyers saying that she and her children are “absolutely shocked, broken and completely blind” and expressing her sympathy for Hortman and Hoffman families. She is not in detention and has not been charged.

“This violence does not align with our beliefs as a family at all,” said his statement. “It is a betrayal of everything we hold as the principles of our Christian faith. We are dismayed and horrified by what happened and our hearts are incredibly heavy for the victims of this unfathomable tragedy.”

The affidavit of an FBI agent described boelters as “preparers”, people who prepare for major or catastrophic incidents. Investigators seized 48 cannons from his home, according to documents of search mandate.

While the FBI agent’s affidavit said that the police arrested Boelter’s wife when she was traveling with her four children north of the twin cities of Onamia on fire, she declared in her statement that she had not been arrested. She said that after receiving a call from the authorities, she immediately led to meet them in a nearby service station and completely cooperated with the investigators.

“We thank the police for having apprehended Vance and protecting others from additional damage,” she said.